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  1. 55 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

    I'm still traumatized by DB Paul Behrman biting on a pump-fake against tech in Austin that put that season into a tailspin. Everyone in the stands, including me, saw Behrman run forward at that moment, and that was the game.
     

    November 4, 1989, at Memorial Stadium: tech 24, Texas 17

    First tech win in Austin since 1967

    Anthony Manyweather gets for a 65 yd TD pass from Jamie Gill.

    The coach for that 1967 Tech win over Texas was Longhorn alumnus and member of the UT Men's Athletic Hall of Honor JT King.

  2. 10 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

    That was a complete nothing piece with the biggest thing of value is now knowing that there won’t be a real offer by the April 15th date…

    So once again, what is the real drop dead date, not for the PAC 12 l, but for acceptance into the Big 12? Is it June 1st to set up a full one year as a lame duck school? Is it later than that? I always thought the April 1st date as essentially there to help calm nerves before the last couple of BOT meetings of the academic to keep someone from going rouge during the summer. If that isn’t going to happen, then what does that signal to everyone?

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  3. Frankly it is arguably better for us if aggy luckstumbles its way to 8 wins this year. Obviously Jimbo + Petrino = divorce; there is no actual danger of the pairing leading to long-term offensive success. Let it marinate one extra year due to an unexpectedly slow fuse. How nice would it be for this gang of the usual suspects still to constitute the aggy football braintrust when we arrive in '24?

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  4. 8 minutes ago, SimkinsMan said:

    I love -- love -- that Ketch goes to a frozen pizza analogy to explain the offensive line's readiness.

    Yeah jabba, we know it's feeding time just as soon as you push 'publish.'

    You guys should put that report down and read something with more relevant information. Like a random teen fashion magazine from last year or a bunch of sheets of used toilet paper.

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  5. A significant bone contusion often heals on the same schedule as a fracture. Without getting to examine his foot and look at his MRI, it’s hard to say how significant I would call it. Assuming the diagnosis is correct and that it was serious enough for him to miss the Xavier game, it sounds like the team needs to be ready to go on without counting on him for any more minutes this year.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Foosters said:

    I'm not sure there's a single coach in CFB history that would be in the "winners" category using your definition,

     

    I was talking more about a team culture of never lying down, always expecting to win, that generally protects from losing winnable games when there is adversity. One example that comes to mind is Bama. Granted they are talented, but they haven't lost to a team with a losing record in I don't know how long. I think aggy at Kyle in '21 is the only unranked loss over the last five years. I would like to see Texas develop the kind of culture that helps our players always expect to win. VY was more than a physical freak-- he was a winner, and the team around him were winners.

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  7. One of the things that Sark said in his presser recently was extrapolating from the importance of players continuing to improve. He stated that coaches including himself had to continue to improve. I am willing to grant sobering up as one improvement. I am curious what if anything he is doing this offseason to improve himself as a game-day coach. There is some truth to dividing opponents into those who can beat us, those that can upset us, and the "safe" games, but that scheme depends not only on not losing key talent but also on a solid team culture. Losers lose games that winners never would. I am not sure whether we are winners. I hope that we are.

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    OK, can you guys hear me? Barb, can you fix the sound? OK there, yeah. Alright, I'll keep this brief because I know everybody is busy. This is the conference of champions, you know. Hehe. OK so on media negotiations, things are looking good. I don't want to bring you a final deal to approve until its not just good, but ideal. We are looking at maximizing a range of benefits with an eye toward positioning ourselves as THE conference to emulate going forward. We have multiple suitors, including traditional networks as well as higher-tech platforms and modern streaming options. There is literally no telling how much a certain company in Cupertino might be willing to pay, you know, once we confirm everything. Really the message is to stay the course and trust the process. We will try to keep trying to give you positive updates like today's as they become available. A final package that rivals anything else done recently in the P5 could theoretically be in your hands as early as April. Obviously I can't divulge too many specifics of our counterparties' hard numbers yet, but I'd be happy to answer anything else you might have. What? Barb, the sound? Well, yes. No. No questions I guess. Is the meeting still"

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    Kliavkov gave a positive update.

     

  9. 25 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

    You absolutely MUST have a pulse and be able to fog a mirror.

    Unless you are a dead collie.

     

    2 minutes ago, TexasBeta said:


    58% acceptance rate. 58%!!! They are flooding Texas with water head hayseeds.

    In-state acceptance rate for class of 2024 was 64%.

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    Noun[edit]

    goon (plural goons)

    1. A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence. quotations ▼
    2. A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish. quotations ▼
    3. (ice hockey, derogatory)  An enforcer or fighter. quotations ▼
    4. (UK, World War II, PoW slang) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
    5. (slang) One hired to legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility. quotations ▼

    I wonder in which sense of the word they intend that they are goons? So many great choices: Nazi soldiers, idiots, kidnappers. Definition 4, while unflattering, at least isn't explicitly racist or stupid.

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  11. Their schedule is softer than the Staypuft Marshmallow Man.

    NM win

    @the U - toss up because their starters might still be intact

    ULM win

    Barn win

    Pig win

    Bama - humiliation on the home field. The lack of depth will bite them.

    @ Tenn - loss

    USCe - toss up because who knows if the gamecocks will ever amount to anything

    @ Ole Miss - loss

    MSU - toss up because at home against new coach after Leach

    ACU win despite no meaningful QB left healthy

    @LSU - horrid season-ending loss

    Bowl - forfeit

    Bottom line: great roller coaster potential, especially should they get by Miami. O/U at 6.5 wins

  12. 12 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    So they probably need a center and an OT. I think they can get a decent grad transfer center. Good luck on a grad transfer OT. 60+ teams in the Power 5 will be looking for that.

    Yeah, OT deficits are not insignificant in the CFB death spiral. Poor aggy.

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    I think coachspeak is just whom he is. It’s literally always whom he’s been.

    OK, Moro Majima the aggy, tell me you try to use words you don't understand without telling me you try to use words you don't understand. Oh, and nice use of literally.

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  13. Unless Donovan is ready to come to Texas this year, there is not a huge crowd of jaw-dropping candidates waiting for us to snatch them up. If we are going with less than a home-run hire, Terry makes sense for a lot of reasons, most of which I will not rehearse here. In his first turn at the wheel of a major men's team, he has us two games away from matching our best result ever. What he did at UTEP is potentially informative, but the best indicator of how he is likely to coach Texas in the tournament is more likely to be (granted, a limited data set) how he has coached Texas in the tournament. Chasing some other "maybe" or "probably" when we have at least in some sense a S16 coach would be foolishness. Hope that Donovan surprises us and comes or, failing that, that Terry has grown in team-building under Beard and brings us right back next year without his interim tag.

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    Asked about the speculation over the future of the conference, Robbins rejected the notion that schools, including Arizona, would bolt for the Big 12 prior to being presented with a media rights proposal.

    “It’s heavily dependent on (commissioner George Kliavkoff) and his team negotiating a good media deal for us to stay competitive,” he said.

    “I don’t think anybody wants to leave. Why would you move for a couple million dollars a year more?”

    He then compared the situation to competing for “a bronze medal.”

    The Big Ten’s media rights contracts with Fox, CBS and NBC, signed in August, will distribute roughly $67 million per year to each campus.

    The SEC’s all-in deal with ESPN is expected to spin off at least $60 million per school once Texas and Oklahoma come aboard in 2024.

    Meanwhile, the Big 12 and Pac-12 are in the third tier, along with the ACC.

    The Big 12 agreed in October to a renewal of its contracts with ESPN and Fox that will reportedly distribute $31.66 million annually.

    “I would love to be closer to the Big Ten or SEC, but being closer to the Big 12 is more realistic,” Robbins said. “(Kliavkoff) has done a great job working on the media deal, and I think he’ll bring us something that’s good enough.”

    Twice during a 10-minute conversation, Robbins made a reference to the Pac-12 as the “Conference of Champions.”

    But he painted a nuanced picture for Arizona, citing the school’s proximity to the Big 12 footprint and that league’s powerhouse basketball brand as the basis for “some affinities.”

    He also addressed the academic piece. Arizona is a member of the Association of American Universities — as is every school in the Pac-12 except Arizona State, Washington State and Oregon State.

    (Kansas will be the only AAU school in the Big 12 once Texas departs.)

    “That’s important to us in terms of research,” said Robbins, a cardiothoracic surgeon who ran the Texas Medical Center in Houston before taking charge of Arizona’s campus in 2017.

    Asked about discussions between Arizona and the Big 12, Robbins didn’t answer directly but said he has friends in the conference and was in favor of adding the remaining Big 12 schools after Texas and Oklahoma announced they were joining the SEC in the summer of 2021.

    “I personally liked the idea … of forming the Pac-20, or the Big Pac — whatever you’d want to call it,” he said.

    “I thought it would have been really cool. But it got very complicated.”

    Ultimately, Robbins framed the future of the Pac-12 as a business decision, with the onus on Kliavkoff to craft a competitive media rights deal.

    “We’re all committed,” he said, “and I’m pretty confident George will bring us a deal that we’re happy with and that preserves the Pac-12 to make the next step together — or with 12 (schools) if we add anybody.”

    In this article, Robbins is presented as rather politic and uncommitted. He manages to throw in a vote of confidence in Kliavkov's negotiation skills and multiple compliments for the Pac. He minimizes the idea of leaving over a "small" difference in payouts. He also mentioned his support in the past of uniting with the B12, friends he has in the B12, and the fact that this is a business decision, all without ever directly answering what negotiations he may have already had with the B12. He seems to know a thing or two about business, based on his tenure leading the Texas Medical Center. Unless the article does a really bad job of cherry picking quotations, it sounds like Robbins confirming that AZ is ready to jump if/when the Pac numbers aren't competitive.

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  15. If we decide we can replace a guy who chokes out girls with a sleazy pimp type, and if we can get Pitino to sign on the dotted line, I don't think there will be much argument that we should have kept RT, even if we make a deep run this year. A little grumbling at first, sure, but no one will be able to claim with a straight face that he was more qualified. If the PR is managed well, it could even be billed as evidence that while we have standards and associate consequences with errors, we still believe in winning over scandals second chances as much as the next school.

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